Pros: Big company name to put on your resume, free fruits, chance to come back for another internship at Microsoft. Fun experience coding with other interns.

Cons: Everything else. The engineering practices at The Foundry Program are ancient. The practical training given to interns is bare minimal, sometimes non-existent. The manager for foundry is unprofessional at times, as he seems to have family/kid issues from time to time, and he often carries that emotion to work. When that happens, he takes no charge at work at all. Base salary is quite low too.

Pros: 1. Excellent learning experience. You can't find a better place to learn how to build something from scratch. 2. Interns hired are really hard working and nice.

Cons: Can't believe I'm writing this review for Microsoft. 1. It's a game of luck: The Foundry program involves grouping interns of 5 on a new project, sponsored by one of the Microsoft teams. The interns will be pitched with an idea and are responsible for designing and implementing a product. If you're lucky with a good sponsor, your project is 80% done because they will help you out. Chances are some sponsors don't care enough. 2. Second-class interns: A bit less than 4k a month, that's the lowest job offer I've ever seen. Pretty horrendous, considering how hard the management pushed interns to work. Hardly any intern events, except they gave us some free pizza 3 times in the summer, while we watched Redmond interns go to free concerts and get Surface Pro 3s. 3. Monopoly management: Management consists of ONE PM, some mentors, and sponsors. As I mentioned, the sponsors sometimes don't matter as much, so the PM and sponsors have almost all the say in whether the project can ship. Yet the problem is, they usually don't take part in the decision-making process. If things go wrong, interns are the ones left to blame, because they will tell you, "you made the decision yourself." Many interns work till 11 pm to catch deadlines. That's as bad as it can be, considering most full-timers are gone at 6. The lack of guidance from the management certainly hasn't helped.

Pros: The office is good. It provides a surface for development, which you have to return later. It's cool to be able to build something from scratch as an intern.

Cons: Overall a bad intern experience. Meetings every day, ~6-7 hours of meetings a week, and they tell you it's normal. For intern devs, that's not normal. Plus, they pay really, really badly. Wouldn't come back again.